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Gaps. the president says money is needed to protect the fragile economy. but is there more at lay. jason lewis of the jason lewis show is here with us. tell us what is the emergency? >> well, the emergency is a political constituency. governments invest for a political return. the political return is bailing outs the public sector unions like the nea, the american federation of state, county and municipal employees. the vast majority of what you spent at state and local government for wages and benefits. what the admin stwraition wants to do is shore up a political constituency with your tax d...

Record government spending and snrovment our lives. -- spend and involvement in our lives. >> that was word war ii where you -- that was world war ii on an international stage. now we are dealing with conflicts in the middle east so you can't compare it two. but you can look at domestic policies this administration is putting out and they are similar to the roosevelt administration. if you read "the forgotten man" you will see they didn't work then and they are not working now. megyn: first we hat the tarp bailouts under president bush. then president obama took office and we had the $780 bill...

I don't think that republicans think that barack obama is the antichrist. >> all right, joan, what about bipartisanship? john mccain says there won't be any. i mean, whatever happened to country first? >> we -- whatever happened to country first? we have not had bipartisanship, ed and john, since barack obama was sworn in as president. he crafted a stimulus bill that was a compromise. liberals wanted a trillion dollars. liberals didn't want the tax cuts. he settled for $780 billion. got to get my math right. and a third of that was tax cuts which liberals oppose. that was to reach out to repub...

John mccain, for example, was a good advocate for cutting down the waste in the military budget. no one wants to cut down things that our soldiers and sailors and air men need, but there's a lot of wasteful spending in the military budget. we've got to go after every dime, because every dime we can cut out, you can use for things that are important to invest in for americans. jon: you talk about wasteful spending, though, a lot of people see a lot of pork in the $780 billion stimulus package that was passed and only about 35 percent of that money has actually been spent yet. would you advocate...

You know, you are not alone on this. a lot of folks, "jersey shore," the local government does not think it reflects well on them. forge forward. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. megyn: well, just ahead a closer look on where some of that $780 billion in stimulus dough is now going. how about paying one group of new yorkers to keep up their pot smoking? at least cheech and chong might at least cheech and chong might be happy. eating healthy is important, but only vegetables can give you vegetable nutrition. one of these will get you more than half way to your five daily servings....